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Section 303:1 – Bylaws.

    303:1 Bylaws. – The proprietors of common lands in any town, at a legal meeting thereof, may provide a mode for calling future meetings, choosing officers, laying assessments and transacting other business concerning such propriety, and may establish bylaws therefor. Source. RS 143:1. CS 151:1. GS 142:1. GL 156:1. PS 154:1. PL 235:1. RL […]

Section 303:10 – Sale.

    303:10 Sale. – If the assessment and all incidental charges shall not be paid at or before the time of sale the collector shall proceed to make sale at auction of so much of the delinquent’s land or right as will pay the same and incidental charges. Source. RS 143:10. CS 151:10. GS 142:10. […]

Section 303:11 – Place of Sale.

    303:11 Place of Sale. – All such auctions shall be holden in the town in which the proprietors’ meetings are required to be holden, and shall take place between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 6 in the afternoon. Source. RS 143:11. CS 151:11. GS 142:11. GL 156:11. PS 154:11. PL 235:11. […]

Section 303:12 – Sale of Part Shares.

    303:12 Sale of Part Shares. – If more than one person is interested in any right or share, and any such part owner shall be delinquent in the payment of any assessment, his interest in such right or share may be sold in the manner hereinbefore provided. Source. RS 143:12. CS 151:12. GS 142:12. […]

Section 303:13 – Redemption.

    303:13 Redemption. – Each proprietor of lands or rights so sold, his heirs or any person interested therein may redeem the same at any time within one year from the sale thereof, by paying or tendering to the collector, his executor or administrator, or, in his absence, at the usual place of abode of […]

Section 303:14 – Collector’s Deed.

    303:14 Collector’s Deed. – If the land or rights sold shall not be redeemed within one year from the day of sale, the collector shall execute to the purchaser a good and valid deed of conveyance thereof; but no such deed shall be executed until the time of redemption has expired. If any proprietors’ […]

Section 303:15 – Confirmatory Votes.

    303:15 Confirmatory Votes. – The proprietors, at any legal meeting, may confirm, ratify and establish any grants, conveyances, votes and transactions by them designed and intended to be made, done, performed or transacted, agreeably to such design, intention and aim, notwithstanding any want of legal form or proper terms or any defect in relation […]

Section 303:16 – Masonian Proprietors.

    303:16 Masonian Proprietors. – The owners of the common and undivided lands purchased by John Tufton Mason, deceased, commonly called the Masonian proprietors, may hold their proprietary meetings at Portsmouth; and all proceedings of such proprietors at meetings so held shall be valid. Such meetings, except as to the place of holding the same, […]

Section 303:17 – Warning Meeting by Justice.

    303:17 Warning Meeting by Justice. – When by mistake or accident, or otherwise, the proprietors of common lands fail to hold their annual meeting, or where no mode for calling special meetings is provided, one or more of the proprietors may apply in writing to any justice of the peace, requesting him to call […]

Section 303:18 – Warrant.

    303:18 Warrant. – The justice shall thereupon issue his warrant, calling such meeting at such time and place, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, as he shall judge proper; which application and warrant shall be published in some newspaper printed in the county in which a major part of the proprietors reside, […]

Section 303:19 – Meeting Valid.

    303:19 Meeting Valid. – The meeting thus called and holden shall be valid, and when assembled shall be governed in all respects according to the requirements of this chapter. Source. 1846, 334:1. CS 151:28. GS 142:28. GL 156:28. PS 154:27. 1921, 78:1. PL 235:19. RL 284:19.

Section 303:2 – Meetings.

    303:2 Meetings. – All proprietary meetings and adjournments thereof, for a town having 50 or more families settled and resident therein, shall be holden in the town; and for all towns having a less number of families settled therein, in the town, or in the nearest town in the same county having such number, […]

Section 303:20 – Copies of Proprietors’ Records.

    303:20 Copies of Proprietors’ Records. – Every proprietors’ clerk, upon payment or tender of the fees therefor, shall furnish to any person applying a true and attested copy of any proprietary record in his possession. Source. RS 143:16. CS 151:16. GS 142:16. GL 156:16. PS 154:16. PL 235:20. RL 284:20.

Section 303:21 – Custody of Records.

    303:21 Custody of Records. – If in any town having 50 families or more settled therein there is no clerk of the proprietors of the common lands lying in such towns residing therein, the town clerk thereof shall demand and receive the proprietary records of any person having the possession thereof, and shall keep […]

Section 303:22 – Lands in 2 Towns.

    303:22 Lands in 2 Towns. – If such proprietary records relate to lands lying in more towns than one, they shall be deposited in the office of the town clerk of the town first incorporated or in the office of the secretary of state. Source. RS 143:18. CS 151:18. GS 142:18. GL 156:18. PS […]

Section 303:23 – Records Filed With Secretary of State.

    303:23 Records Filed With Secretary of State. – When the propriety of any town is dissolved, or when the meeting of the proprietors of any common and undivided lands shall be dissolved, and the clerk thereof shall resign, decease or become incapacitated, any person, the town clerk of any town having 50 or more […]

Section 303:24 – Redelivery of Records to Town.

    303:24 Redelivery of Records to Town. – Whenever there are 50 families in any such town, and the town votes that the town clerk shall keep such records and documents, or whenever the proprietors duly appoint a clerk thereof, the secretary shall deliver to the town clerk or proprietors’ clerk, on demand, the records […]

Section 303:25 – Penalty for Violating Provisions as to Records.

    303:25 Penalty for Violating Provisions as to Records. – If any person shall wilfully retain or keep any records or documents appertaining to the propriety of any common and undivided lands, contrary to the provisions of RSA 303:21 through 24, he shall be fined $100. Source. RS 143:21. CS 151:21. GS 142:21. GL 156:21. […]

Section 303:26 – Custodian’s Copies of Records.

    303:26 Custodian’s Copies of Records. – While the records and documents aforesaid are in possession of the secretary of state or of any town clerk, he shall make out, certify and deliver copies of any part thereof, when required, upon the payment or tender of the legal fees therefor. Source. RS 143:22. CS 151:22. […]

Section 303:27 – Effect.

    303:27 Effect. – All copies of such records and documents so made and certified shall be as effectual to all intents and purposes as copies by other certifying officers. Source. RS 143:23. CS 151:23. GS 142:23. GL 156:23. PS 154:23. PL 235:27. RL 284:27.